As Conal Cochran slowly drove by in a chauffeured vehicle, Mr.Rafferty called him a "true genius."As they checked in, other guests of the motel arrived in a Winnebago - the Kupfer family from San Diego:husband Buddy (Ralph Strait)wife Betty (Jadeen Barbor)and red-haired rambunctious son "Little" Buddy (Bradley Schacter)At the same time, a disgruntled toy shop owner (on Union Square in San Francisco) named Marge Guttman (Garn Stephens) also drove in, unhappy about having o stay overnight due to "screwed up" toy orders from the "damn factory" that she was forced to handle personally.To avoid being detected, Bilbo put the Ring on his finger o become hidden and cloaked in invisibility.Ganesh was an elephant-headed Hindu deity.] Documentary footage included the implosion of the historic Traymore Hotel on he Atlantic City Boardwalk, as a symbol of the changes coming to he town with the construction of new casinos during the revitalization effort.The film's character, Hollis Mulwray, was loosely derived from LA's real-life water engineer William Mulholland (the General Manager of LA's Bureau of Water Works and Supply), who orchestrated the purchase of water rights and the piping of water from the High Sierras into Los Angeles by an aqueduct hat flowed through the now-valuable San Fernando Valley north of LA.